Okay, so the title sounds a little morbid/apocalyptic. But I’m proud that I made it through a thirty day challenge this time! I slipped up a couple of times but nothing majorly. My last requirement is something I’m excited for.
Guild Wars 2! That’s one of the huge things I’m excited about. I don’t need to harp on any more about it because everyone probably knows how much I’m looking forward to playing this and losing myself in the sequel to the MMO I put so many years into!
I’m looking forward for a lot of things and they excite me as well as this though. I’m looking forward to getting this news out in the open so it’s a little less stressful, though in reality it’ll probably become more stressful for a time. I’m also just generally looking forward to the future. My modules for next year at uni sound really interesting, then I get to move nearer to home for more stuff, and after that all of the things that are good about life! A good job and a wonderful family.
It’s nice to have an ideal at the very least. It’s good to get excited about things. I’m a big advocate of the philosophy of not expecting anything so whatever you get is a positive, but the more happy I am with my current circumstances I get a little bit less of that attitude.
‘Til next time :)
Five weird things I like… Where do I start? Though I suppose it really depends on one’s definition of weird, if I’m in a gaming community then my “weird” things are completely different.
I’m curious about role playing games (proper one), which probably counts as nerdy/weird to most people. I know I’d be terribly awkward I just like the idea. But I like gaming in general which is weird to a lot of people. Most think there are better things to do with their time, while I think drinking is stupid and the social facade is pointless.
I really like moving furniture around a lot, I guess that counts as weird. I just like the change sometimes and it’s nice to have the fresh feeling. Also it makes me feel productive for a change.
POKEMON! I do love me some pokémon. I don’t follow it that closely but I never really grew out of it. I love the colourfulness and all the different designs.
I like sneezing? I guess that’s a weird thing. Just feels tingly and nice.
I like sleep, dreaming and having a lot of pillows around me. I just love the idea of sleep and dreams and all those related things, at the moment I’m enjoying reading about it. It’s not just because I’m a student, how it all works is incredibly fascinating to me.
So I guess that works for five things I like that are kinda weird, finished at two minutes to midnight! Great, now I have Iron Maiden in my head. Not that that’s a bad thing…
‘Til next time :)
Wooow I’m getting towards the end! Only two left. It’s been a long month and ultimately this thing has been fairly pointless but at least it’s encouraged me to browse tumblr every day. Yesterday’s non-challenge post was a bit weird but it felt good to talk about gaming for a while. I’ve played Torchlight since and sated my appetite for it for a little bit :P I’ve also really been enjoying Transformers: War on Cybertron.
Today’s instruction is somewhere I’d like to visit or move to. For this I have a hard time choosing between Canada and America. I’d like to visit the majority of Canada and I haven’t actually seen or heard much about it, it just sounds like a fantastic place to be with lovely people.
In America there are a few places I’d like to visit but not everywhere, specificially: Seattle, New York, Chicago, and Washington D.C. I’d also like to visit L.A. of course but that’s not such a big thing for me. They all sound like such big and fantastic cities that would be wonderful to explore. It’s odd because I stay away from London because I haven’t got a clue where I would begin to look at, but I’m fine saying I’d visit other huge cities in other countries.
In addition to these two I’ve always wanted to visit Egypt and Venice. I’ve always been interested in both ancient Roman and Egyptian (as well as Greek) mythology and lore, and would love to visit Egypt to look at all of the things I was obsessed with as a child. I also wanted to visit Venice since I read “The Thief Lord” when I was around 8 and got really immersed into it. It’s the same reason I want to visit Seattle; books can paint such a vivid picture for me that I want to go there. I had a similar experience with one of my Dad’s books for Egypt but that was 4ish years ago, wayyy after I’d already formed the intention to visit.
‘Til next time :)
Today’s instruction is a quote I try to live by. I’ve had some thought about it and kinda decided that I don’t really live by a quote as such. I have a few that I like but none of them seem to me to be something I could live my life by only following. While I know a couple of decent quotes I think they all contribute to life rather than give a single piece of guidance.
But I’m probably reading into it too much.
“Don’t live your life for today, because then you’d be fucking crazy. Live your life like it’s a story that you would want to tell someone” - Philip Defranco
That’s what I choose however, because it’s a good general piece of advice and I like it. It’s not always applicable; I guess it depends on what type of story you want to tell someone. Not everyone needs a thrilling story.
‘Til next time :)
Today’s topic is things I like and dislike about myself… Time for some self-loathing woo!
I like my intelligence, hair colour and eye colour… that’s about it! It would take far too long to list the things I dislike about myself, and not even in a way for sympathy because I choose not to talk about it!
I guess it makes me a bit hypocritical since i’m always encouraging people to value themselves and see the beauty in themselves, and it might be a bit harder to argue then when I can’t even follow my own advice, but perhaps it’s simply because I try to show people what’s good about themselves and I have no need to hear that from other people. Not sure how that all works.
‘Til next time :) Well tomorrow…
Today’s topic of discussion is “something I’m currently worrying about”…
Exams! There’s the easy one. I have four exams in the next three weeks and I worry and panic a lot about them sometimes. It’s part of my routine though, it relieves my stress during the exam so that I can survive it. I have my land law on monday which panics me a lot but being able to take notes in makes me wonder how much harder it might be.
The other thing I worry about at the moment is an important thing happening. I can’t really elaborate since I have an inkling of those who might occasionally read this, but it’s a decision that’s happening in the next few weeks but should have happened already. Revealing things can be hard and it makes me panic a lot, though in theory I don’t care what people think I still worry about potential backlash. I can plan my arguments all I like but it doesn’t usually work out the way one envisages it. It has to happen around the beginning of June but putting it off that long just makes me feel worse about the pressure I’m under and the effect it may have on other people.
‘Til next time :)
Catching up to do! I’m now back in swansea so procrastination should mean I get the rest of this done hitch-less.
Twenty Three - Something I miss. This could be many things I suppose but I’m going with sixth form. With relaxed classes and friendly people and teachers, as well as riveting subjects, it’s probably a time at school I enjoyed the most. Perhaps in a few years I’ll see university as that time but not at the moment. Obviously it wasn’t perfect but there were a lot of good times during those two years.
Twenty Four - Five words/phrases that make me laugh. A difficult one this time! I think it’s a lot easier to just give people that make me laugh a lot, since anything gets boring quickly if one hears it too much.
Eddie Izzard, Robert Downey Jr, Nathan Fillion, Jesse Cox, Philip Defranco. There are more but I can’t think of them right now.
‘Til next time :)
Once again apologies for my tardiness, I’ve been out most of the day. Avengers is amazing.
My Academics today! Something very simple again. I started at 5, as everyone does in the UK, with my compulsary education at primary school. Fairly regular, bored me a little because I found most of it easy. I also took extra-curricular french classes from age 7-10. I moved on to a grammar school, after passing the 11+ test, which i enjoyed greatly. For my GCSEs I took a wide variety of subjects including French, German, and Latin, and I feel my grades were fairly good.
Things got much more fun for me in sixth form because things stopped being as easy as they had been. I chose Religious Studies, Sociology, and Psychology and came out with good grades after two years.
I’m now at uni doing Psychology and Law, which I also greatly enjoy despite some bumps on the learning curve. I’m about to finish my second year with a round of difficult exams ready for more next year.
After this I intend to do an MSc in Forensic Psychology, coupled with some form of extra law qualification.
I’ve been described as something of an eternal student. I would gladly do so if I had the funds though I’m beginning to wonder what it’d be like to have a job and experience what so many people get very bored of. I’m happy and proud of my education and am grateful for the chances I’ve had.
‘Til next time :)
My bad, I’m five minutes behind on this! My apologies for the slipping in my punctuality, I’m at home for a little bit and Tumblr always takes third or fourth priority when that happens.
Today’s description is “Your fears”. Rather a wide topic so I’ll start specific and move to wider fears! My simple two are arachnophobia (fear of spiders), which I have to an extreme extent, and Coulrophobia (fear of clowns), a less severe condition.
Other than that I have the general human fears of rejection, failure, and the possibility of things in the dark. I don’t fear death, unusually, partially due to my slightly morbid personality but also simply due to the fact that it interests me. I’m not likely to throw myself off a building soon but debates about what happens after death and thoughts about how it all might work take up a fair amount of my time.
I enjoyed that one!
‘Til next time :)
Todayyy my required post is five items I lust after. I’ll do my best!
1. Guild Wars 2! Released later this year I can’t wait to play more of it
2. Chevrolet Camaro SS/Nissan GT-R/Ford Mustang GT! I very much want one of these at some time in my life.
3. A secret room behind a bookcase in my future house. Dunno what I’d use it for though.
4. Steampunk attire! I looove me some steampunk.
5. A portal gun! Not physically possible right now but I still want one. I’d need Chelle’s boots too tho.
Well that was fun. Nothing in there is really needed though. I’m happy with my relationship, my education and my family.
‘Til next time :)
Today I have to talk about a problem I’ve had… difficult for anyone to narrow down the past problems of their life! But I don’t really have any problems, just some inconveniences.
I have a problem with motivating myself to get work done… tumblr and youtube are big distractions for me as well as TV shows, and it’s hard for me to get through notes efficiently. 6 hours work a day turns into 12 hours of half hearted work with shows on and MSN running. I’ll find out next week whether I can work any better at home but I’m not expecting fantastic results.
‘Til next time :)
Today would be something I’m proud of… not sure that there is something. My intelligence perhaps? Though my common sense fails me often enough.
Okay I really don’t think I can write any more about this, I do hate being vain… sarcasm is much more my thing. Plus my writing skills are being directed at writing notes for exams since I have those coming up soon and it’s beginning to get me stressed!
On the up side it’s another month until I have four months off! In which I need to work on things for next year… fun fun.
So after that uninteresting ramble I’ll leave you to your much more interesting lives!
‘Til next time :)
Today I have to talk about something I think “What if…?” about. I’ve actually done a post about this kind of thing a long time ago but I’m sure it won’t hurt to do a specific example.
I think my main “what if” would be “what if I hadn’t come to uni?” or any variation of this, such as what if i’d gone to a different uni. I’m not sure a different uni would change my life that much since I don’t socialise and I’d just have a different set of work; my main friends were all formed just before I came away so that wouldn’t make a difference.
If I hadn’t gone to uni though I could be working in a dead-end job wasting my intelligence! How fascinating. I don’t mean to sound vain at all it’s just that I think i’d be doing research in my own time if I had nothing else to do. I often think about the future when I have a job just so I can live out my ideal situation but I’d still want to have the education I’m getting. I want my future dearly but it’ll be so much better after I’ve completed my education.
So I think that’s it. Tomorrow’s looks very hard so that’ll be fun.
‘Til next time :)
What I wore today for day fourteen! I’m going to do what I wore yesterday since I can actually remember it.
Yesterday was the last day of having my wonderful other half visit me and I wore my purple hoody, an aqua V-neck tshirt, light grey jeans (which I changed to beige khakis later), and my new grey trainers I was bought the previous day. Another fairly simple one here so I’ll move on to day fifteen.
Today is my horoscope and if I think it fits my personality… I have no real idea about where to find one so I’ll just search google! The first result was dailyhoroscopes.com and this is what it says:
You begin work at an early hour this morning—perhaps in hopes of leaving work early in the afternoon. Your intuition will serve you well in business today. You may feel that you are shouldering more than your usual responsibilities today. You take an attitude of the winner and are often referenced to the newcomer or visitor as a person that can be followed. Your work ethics are strong and valuable to all around you. You will be receiving helpful advice about a financial matter later today. This may involve the purchase of an antique, or a precious stone. If so … make sure you get a professional to guarantee the value of your purchase for insurance reasons. Extend your compassion through acts of kindness this evening.
NONE of that fits me today: my work didn’t go well, I have the same responsibilities as usual and I have no financial matters to deal with. That was simple.
‘Til next time :)
“My body and how comfortable I am with it”
Well this’ll be fun… I despise my body and pretty much everything about me, physical or otherwise. So that probably makes it obvious that I’m very uncomfortable with it.
Nonetheless I encourage people to realise beauty and be comfortable with themselves. I’m good at being a hypocrite in that way! I guess it’s because people focus on women feeling bad about themselves and I don’t see why they should feel so bad when so many of them are beautiful.
In addition people don’t really realise that guys can feel the same way, without the kinds of stereotypes that are usually prescribed.
‘Til next time :)
